The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-02-04
THE LABOR WORLD.
STRIKE IN THE EAsr STILL oy.
Non-Uhion sfen Taking the Places .
tho strlkers-Tho Police Prepared
to Suppress Any Outbreak
Tim: 1iay Occur. .,..

NhW lokki rop. o.-Nery NtlIo lfelGh
Is being moved along the river point thi,
morning and most Of the railroad places
on tho West Side are still closed. The
New York Central has $50 mon at worl:
discharging biz floats that for the past 70 v
days have lain at tho pier, but the pro.
gresa made Is very SLOW. The company
Is receiving all tho freight that Is offered,
but merchants arc not shipping more than
tho mos. urgent orders, fearing delay.
The Pennsylvania road introduced five
hundred men on pier S, but they were all
green hands who had never handled
freight before.
One gate was open this morning and a
few truckmcn discharged several tons Of
freight on the bulkheaJ. The Leaiph
company at pier did rot open its vates
but some freight was being handled on the
dock. The company doeB not, the agent
asyo, feel the Inconvenience much. The
New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad
put on force o! men in place of the
strikers and opened their pier Tor the re.
ceipt OF freight Very little was received.
On the steamship piers there was much
improvement. Freight wss being moved
mostly by new men. There ID an abund.
ance OF unskilled labor to be had and the
superintendents OF the decks have more
men than they have plscea for. The
trouble " that these men have he'd
no experience at freight handling.
The trouble Oh the Union line pier wss
further complicated this morning when
Alex. Taylor, the stock yard steyedore.
resigned. He claimed that he could not
work with the fo,cs on hand. At the
Hudson river freight depot gang Of
Italians left work and Joined the strikers,
ITALIANS WILLING TO sTRIKE.
The Master Werkmsn Of an Italian
local assembly Of Knights Of Labor called
at the headquarters Of the Ocean Associa.
ton and told the committee that rs
Italians who were working as non-union
mon were willing to strike il admitted to
the union, The offer Was accepted,
The men struck. An officer of the
Ocean Association aays that an Italian ia
paid So head for supplying men to the
Steamship company. The non.union
men on the Mallory limo piers who struck
several days ago have joined the union.
Police Superintendent Murray has taken
vigorous measures to repress outrsses
Police Inspector Steers has taken charge
Of tho police along tho peers with head.
quarters at pier 80, North River, with a
large force Of uniformed police under his
command. Ths river fronts are practical.
ly in state Of eiege. Ono thousand 20.
lice have been massed in reserve at four
different pointa. Patrol wagons have been
placed at each place. 80 that the whole
force can be concentrated at any given
point in short time. The ono thousand
men can handle twenty times that num-
Der OF rioter6. One Thousand moro are in
reserve at police headquarters.
In case Of riot the whole force can
reach the acene inai4e OF an hour. In aG.
dition fully 100 detectives have been DE-.
tailed for duty along the shore wearing
plain clothes. The captains chosen to
command the four divisions under 1nepsc-
tor Steers are the most moderate tempered
men GU the force. They have been ee-
lected as not likely TO provoke q fight,
while fully sble to carry it on il begun.
All the river stations report half.hourly to
Superintendent Murray. Up to noon no
trouble had been reported. The Superin.
tendent thinks inst ho is able to repress
any disorder or rioting that may arse.
Over three hundred non.union laea
Of every nationality we're brought to tho
Pennsylvania piers q and % this morn
ing. Twenty negroes, upon finding a
strike in progresg, refused 10 work. They
came under the impression they were 10
lay tracks. Fifteen went over 10 the
strikera and the others went to Jorsey
City. Over 200 men were kept Oh tug.
boat and not SLOWED to land.
The police guarded the Savannah pier
to-day for the first time during the ptrike.
Non.union men arc boarded and lodged
on q barge Ct Balkhesd. They fear iroa-
BILE in consequence of the ahooting alrsy
Tuesday niSut.
At Tue Hudson River railrosd sheds at
Johns Park, IL number OF mea were
brought into tho yard which enclosed the
cars to fill the places Of the Italians who
joined the s.Iikers. They were mot al
loTod outside, rs pickats Of the strikers
were around. The police guarded them.
The superintendent said he could get all
the men ha wanted, and thar the strike
had not delsysd the delivery Of freight.